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... young " giving birth to the third child . " The three sons have a way of shrugging their shoulders , / a way the man remembers .... The three young men / have grown up arrogant and vain , and one of them , by accident , / has fathered a ...
... young " giving birth to the third child . " The three sons have a way of shrugging their shoulders , / a way the man remembers .... The three young men / have grown up arrogant and vain , and one of them , by accident , / has fathered a ...
Page 153
... young men . For half a century now , every day , They have hunted them down and killed them . They are killing the young men . They know ten thousand ways to kill them . Every year they invent new ones . In the jungles of Africa , In ...
... young men . For half a century now , every day , They have hunted them down and killed them . They are killing the young men . They know ten thousand ways to kill them . Every year they invent new ones . In the jungles of Africa , In ...
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... young students of Japanese like John Solt , young poets of almost every persuasion , and some who appeared to be simply literate young people willing to learn from a self - educated man , a scholar out of office . Everything in those ...
... young students of Japanese like John Solt , young poets of almost every persuasion , and some who appeared to be simply literate young people willing to learn from a self - educated man , a scholar out of office . Everything in those ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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